Sylvia Plath's The bell jar
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604132038
Subjects: Plath, Sylvia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biographical sketch; title: The story behind the story; title: List of characters; title: Summary and analysis; title: Howard Moss on illness and disclosure in the novel; title: Vance Bourjaily on pseudonyms and alternate identities; title: Robert Scholes on Plath's use of realism; title: Linda W. Wagner on the female coming-of-age novel; title: E. Miller Budick on Plath's feminist discourse; title: Diane S. Bonds on Esther's tentative rebirth; title: Paula Bennett on models of womanhood; title: Pat Macpherson on the portrayal of social and gender conventions; title: Tim Kendall on Esther's search for identity; title: Marilyn Boyer on language and disability; title: Kate A. Baldwin on the novel's social and political contexts; title: Janet Badia on pop culture appropriations of The bell jar; title: Works by Sylvia Plath; title: Annotated bibliography.